Relationships like that pose a risk “in terms of potential information falling into the hands of people who would use it for their own purposes,” according to James Der Derian, who heads the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.

The jet costs $23,000 an hour to operate, according to Corporate Jet Investor — which is probably why the Qataris’ gift to Trump flew only 1,069 hours in the five years before it was put on the market in 2020, according to Forbes’ report.

A Boeing 747 jet offered to President Donald Trump by Qatar as a temporary flying White House might need fighter jet escorts and could be restricted to flying inside the US unless significantly costly security upgrades were made,